Hirder vogalennek : diforc'h etre ar stummoù

Kemmañ a ra an niver a derezioù hirder a yezh da yezh:

 

 

 

 

[[Estonian language|Estonian]] has three distinctive lengths, but the third is [[suprasegmental]], as it has developed from the allophonic variation caused by now-deleted grammatical markers. For example, half-long 'aa' in ''saada'' comes from the agglutination *''saata+ka'' "send+(imperative)", and the overlong 'aa' in ''saada'' comes from *''saa+ta'' "get+(infinitive)". One of the very few languages to have three lengths, independent of vowel quality or syllable structure, is [[Mixe language|Mixe]]. An example from Mixe is {{IPA|[poʃ]}} "guava", {{IPA|[poˑʃ]}} "spider", {{IPA|[poːʃ]}} "knot". Similar claims have been made for [[Yavapai language|Yavapai]] and [[Wichita language|Wichita]].

 

Four-way distinctions have been claimed, but these are actually long-short distinctions on adjacent syllables. For example, in kiKamba, there is {{IPA|[ko.ko.na]}}, {{IPA|[kóó.ma̋]}}, {{IPA|[ko.óma̋]}}, {{IPA|[nétónubáné.éetɛ̂]}} "hit", "dry", "bite", "we have chosen for everyone and are still choosing".